Comment on Article "Pragmatic Awareness of Conversational Implicatures and the Usefulness of Explicit Instruction"

Abstract

This paper analyses Cignetti & di Giuseppe’s “Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction” and discusses whether explicit instruction can improve EFL learners’ understanding of implicit meaning.

Keywords

• implicature
• implicit meaning
• Pragmatics
• Foreign Language Teaching and Learning